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For more proof of our necessity, look at the disasters that befall any community that deigns to cut out its queer eye.

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The research is used in part to inform highway planners and conservation organizations on how to prevent vehicular deaths like the one that befell F390.

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All the plans, in their own very different ways, hope to salvage something out of the calamity that has befallen Gaza over the past two years.

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Despite efforts to retain much of its historic character, the 14-year project proved controversial with one architectural expert branding the demolition "the greatest architectural crime to befall London in the 20th Century".

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Of course, the Epstein case itself is no longer “real,” but a plot device to keep viewers tuning in to see what befalls the protagonist, in the manner of someone being voted off the island.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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